Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk

[Andy Moreton]

On Wed 17 Feb 2021, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Because it was unreasonable to expect you to keep supporting it when
>>> MSYS2 folks dropped it.  And since MinGW64 dropped support of old
>>> Windows versions, which are the main audience for the 32-bit build,
>>> such a MinGW64 build is no longer useful anyway.
>>
>> Agreed: when I wrote the above, I was unaware that the MSYS2 developers
>> had dropped 32bit support.
>
> Just to clarify: MSYS2 dropped 32bit support for the POSIX packages,
> because Cygwin (which is its upstream project) did so. But MSYS2 still
> builds and distributes MinGW-w64 32 bit packages, and AFAIK the plan is
> to keep doing that for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for clarifying. However given that the build system needs the
POSIX tools, the end result is similar.

    AndyM